Erimtan Museum Tuesday Concert Series

Spring 2020 Performances

February 4, 2020 – May 12, 2020
20.30, unless otherwise noted
Tickets can be bought via biletix or at the door (but it is recommended to buy tickets in advance; concerts may sell out)

Erimtan Archaeology and Arts Museum, Kale Mahallesi, Gözcü Sokak No: 10, Altındağ, Ankara

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Twice a month, the Erimtan Museum in Ankara hosts a performance under their ‘Music in the Museum: Tuesday Concerts’ series (now in its fifth season). The Spring 2020 lineup is impressive and features some of Turkey’s leading musicians, as well as up-and-coming talents:

4 February 2020
‘Dance of the Piano with the Contrabass’
Gizem Sözeri (contrabass), Kenan Tatlıcı (piano)
Click here to watch Sözeri and Tatlıcı perform Rachmaninoff

18 February 2020
‘Dramatic States of Love’
Mine Kurtoğlu (soprano), Tuncay Kurtoğlu (bass), Melahat İsmailova (piano)
Click here to listen to Mine Kurtoğlu perform ‘Un bel di vedremo’ from Madame Butterfly and here to listen to Tuncay Kurtoğlu perform Verdi’s Don Carlo

3 March 2020 (concert in honour of International Women’s Day)
‘Kanunum Gülle Süslü…’
Esra Berkman( kanun), Lilian Tonella Tüzün (piano)
Watch Berkman and Tüzün perform ‘At the Golden Horn no. 8’ by Uğraş Durmuş

17 March 2020
‘Cabaret…French Chances’
Şirin Soysal (vocals), Hakan Ali Toker (accordion/piano), Cem Malak (contrabass)

7 April 2020
‘Shakespeare and Music’
Linet Şaul (soprano), Diego Leveric (Renaissance lute and Baroque guitar), Bülent Oral (viola da gamba), Ayşe Lebriz Berkem (theatre performance)
Listen to Şaul’s incredible performance of ‘Musetta’s Waltz’ from La Bohème and click here to listen to Diego Leveric perform ‘Passacaglia’ from Libro Quarto d’Intavolatura di Chitarrone on the lute.

21 April 2020
‘A Star Grows’
Elfida Su Turan (keman), Çağdaş Özkan (piano)

5 May 2020
Erimtan Award Concert
featuring the Olten Quartet, winner of the ADK-Der Ulvi Yücelen Oda Müziği Competition
Eren Kuştan (1. keman), Gülce Karagözcük ( 2. keman), Ercan Atasoy (viola), Beste Başçı (cell)
Click here to listen to the Olten Quartet perform Dmitri Shostakovich’s ‘String Quartet No.4 Op. 108’

12 May 2020
‘What Does the Viola Say to the Piano?’
Duo Yin-Yang
Pınar Dinçer (viola), Başar Can Kıvrak (piano)
Watch the Duo Yin-Yang perform live last year at the Ahmed Adnan Saygun Sanat Merkezi